The 50th anniversary of Ferrari’s landmark 250 GTO will be celebrated with a special GTO class at the 17th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance next March 9–11. The GTO is a tribute to the days when auto manufacturers paid special attention to racing’s various rulebooks and built cars specifically to suit them and satisfy the FIA’s homologation process.
Upon perusing 1962’s new rulebook for Grand Touring Car racing, Enzo Ferrari set his engineering staff to work mating their existing 300 hp V12 with an exquisite aluminum-bodied coupe from Scaglietti, but all did not go smoothly. Several key members of the team left the program following disagreements with Mr. Ferrari, which led to a young Mauro Forghieri stepping up to pull everything back together. The result was one of the most beautiful and successful Ferrari racing cars ever.
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